BRAJESH PATHAK, a outstanding pupil chief at Lucknow University, who was elected because the president of the scholars’ union in 1990, left the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in August 2016. Since then, he has established himself as a outstanding Brahmin face of the BJP, leaving many elderly Brahmin leaders behind. He has been elevated to the place of UP deputy chief minister.
Born in Hardoi district in 1964, Pathak’s transition from a pupil chief to an lively mainstream politician got here when the BSP was attempting to unfold its base among the many Brahmins in 2003 when its alliance with the BJP was damaged and Mayawati needed to resign. As an advocate, he had contacts with Satish Mishra, the Advocate General of UP in the course of the Mayawati regime (2002-2003).
Pathak secured the BSP’s Lok Sabha ticket from Unnao in 2004 and gained the seat. Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2009, he resigned from its membership. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2008 as a BSP candidate and served because the get together’s deputy chief within the Upper House.
His Rajya Sabha tenure resulted in 2014. As the BSP had suffered a loss within the 2012 Assembly polls and its vote base was additionally shrinking, Pathak joined the BJP in August 2016 when the saffron get together was attempting to unfold its base with a watch on the 2017 UP Assembly polls. He established his relations with the RSS-BJP Brahmin community. The get together fielded him from the Lucknow Central seat, and he gained.
He was the Law Minister in Adityanath’s first authorities, after which he was additionally given Legislative, Justice and Rural Engineering Service departments. In this election, he gained the Lucknow Cantt seat.
Fighting the notion that the Brahmins are sad with the BJP and its authorities after the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey, Pathak labored very arduous to persuade his group members to stick with the saffron get together. Besides, as a Law Minister, he appointed many Brahmins legal professionals as authorities counsels in UP courts.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
